Bath Theatre Grace Pervades

Legendary star of stage and screen, Ralph Fiennes, stars opposite Miranda Raison (Spooks) in David Hare's 'fascinating, absorbing and very funny' (FT) play, transferring from a sell. Grace Pervades appears at the Theatre Royal Bath from Friday 27th June to Saturday 19th July. To book tickets contact the Theatre Royal Bath Box Office on 01225 448844 or book online at theatreroyal.org.uk.

In putting the two most influential theatre figures of the past back onto the stage today and exploring their legacies with compassion, magnanimity and - yes! - grace, he's reset the foundations of contemporary theatre. Greatness pervades. Photo credits: Marc Brenner Grace Pervades is at Theatre Royal Bath until 19 July.

The theatre world has shifted - once about writers, now perhaps about directors - but no medium lifts the leading actor so high, nor demands quite so much. And here comes Ralph Fiennes, the pale priest of precision, beginning his season at Theatre Royal Bath with Grace Pervades, David Hare's new work. Ralph Fiennes is totally mesmerising in David Hare 's new play Grace Pervades, the first of a trio of works in an adventurous Ralph Fiennes season at Theatre Royal Bath with Theatre Royal Bath.

Grace Pervades is David Hare's new play about Victorian theatrical titans, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry. She was an unmarried mother for whom acting came second to her loved ones; he was a husband and father, for whom Theatre (very capital T) was an obsession. GRACE PERVADES Theatre Royal Bath Theatre is fond of sending itself love letters, albeit - from Sheridan's The Critic to Frayn's Noises Off - often prudently laced with affectionate mockery.

Here, kicking off a Ralph Fiennes season in the prettiest and most approriate of Victorian playhouses, David Hare evokes two of the first 'national treasure' theatrical figures: the great Henry. The opening production of The Ralph Fiennes/Theatre Royal Bath Season sees Ralph Fiennes play opposite Miranda Raison in the world premiere of David Hare's new play, Grace Pervades. Overall, Grace Pervades is a worthy watch for any theatre lover with many insights to learn along the way.

This is the first of three plays that make up the Ralph Fiennes/Theatre Royal Bath Season, with Shakespeare's As You Like It and another new play, Rebecca Lenkiewicz 's Small Hotel, coming later this year. Ralph Fiennes is utterly compelling in David Hare's smart new play Fiennes kicks off his season in Bath with zeal by starring as Victorian theatre titan Henry Irving in Grace Pervades.